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runtime-next: discard hinted frontier when committed frontier is rebuilt - #3165

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Problem

When the materialization leader rebuilds a task's committed frontier from an authoritative recovered checkpoint — a legacy V1 checkpoint during a V1→V2 migration, or a remote-authoritative connector checkpoint — the recovered hinted frontier may reference producers that the rebuilt committed frontier no longer carries.

project_hinted zeroes each hinted producer's read offset and relies on a matching committed-frontier producer to restore it. An orphaned hint (one with no committed counterpart) therefore resolves to journal offset 0, forcing a full re-read of the journal from the beginning to replay a hint whose data the authoritative checkpoint already reflects. On large journals this can prevent a task from completing startup.

Fix

  • Discard the recovered hinted frontier whenever the committed frontier is rebuilt from an authoritative checkpoint. The checkpoint is itself a complete committed frontier, so there is nothing to replay.
  • Clear the hinted frontier from RocksDB via the startup cleanup Persist (delete_hinted_frontier), so stale hints can't resurface on a later recovery.

This applies to both rebuild paths (legacy V1 checkpoint and connector-authoritative checkpoint). The no-rebuild path, the connector hinted-close delta path, and the drop-rollback path are unchanged.

Refactor + tests

Extracts the startup recovery reconciliation out of the async run() path into a pure reconcile_recovered function (no IO), making the reconciliation policy unit-testable. Adds unit tests covering:

  • the discard on the legacy-rebuild branch,
  • the discard on the connector-authoritative branch,
  • hint preservation (replay from the committed offset) when there is no rebuild,
  • the connector hinted-close delta fold,
  • the drop-rollback path deleting only the legacy checkpoint.

All runtime-next leader::materialize::startup tests pass.

When the materialization leader rebuilds a task's committed frontier from an
authoritative recovered checkpoint — a legacy V1 checkpoint during a V1->V2
migration, or a remote-authoritative connector checkpoint — the recovered
hinted frontier may reference producers the rebuilt committed frontier no
longer carries.

`project_hinted` zeroes each hinted producer's read offset and relies on a
matching committed-frontier producer to restore it. An orphaned hint (no
committed counterpart) therefore resumes at journal offset 0, forcing a full
re-read of the journal from the beginning to replay a hint whose data the
authoritative checkpoint already reflects. On large journals this can prevent
startup from completing.

Discard the recovered hinted frontier whenever the committed frontier is
rebuilt: an authoritative checkpoint is a complete committed frontier, so there
is nothing to replay. Also clear the hinted frontier from RocksDB via the
startup cleanup Persist so it cannot resurface on a later recovery.

Additionally, extract the startup recovery reconciliation into a pure
`reconcile_recovered` function (no IO) and add unit tests covering the discard
on both rebuild branches, hint preservation when there is no rebuild, the
connector hinted-close delta path, and the drop-rollback path.

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LGTM

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jgraettinger merged commit 1d585b6 into master Jul 14, 2026
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mdibaiee added a commit to estuary/homebrew-flowctl that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2026
## What's Changed
* docs: surface MCP and agent skills for coding agents by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3093
* dekaf: serve the document containing a mid-document fetch offset by @jshearer in estuary/flow#3150
* runtime: let docker atomically assign published connector host ports by @dgreer-dev in estuary/flow#3162
* runtime-next: discard hinted frontier when committed frontier is rebuilt by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3165
* docs/source-postgres: Sync statement_timeout change by @willdonnelly in estuary/flow#3168
* Provide capture/materializations created_at date by @dgreer-dev in estuary/flow#3160
* docs: add Processing order section for materialization binding priority by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3171
* docs: reorganize agent skills page by plugin, add derivations and schema by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3170
* go.mod: bump gazette to latest by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3180
* Service Accounts by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3058
* Bound too-large error messages over RPC by @dgreer-dev in estuary/flow#3182
* control-plane: guarded, auto-expiring temporary support access to restricted tenants by @skord in estuary/flow#3115
* private links: model links as rows with controller-observed status by @jshearer in estuary/flow#3063
* Adding support for an stripe web hook endpoint. by @bbartman in estuary/flow#3174
* docs: Dekaf consumer behaviors + Spark Structured Streaming guidance by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3094
* shuffle: log canonical journal name in slice read events by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3190
* runtime: persist the max-key fail-safe sentinel at adoption by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3191
* local: make flow-plane-link robust to control-plane agent start-up by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3158
* gazette: surface fragment store diagnostic on FRAGMENT_STORE_UNHEALTHY by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3159
* docs: add warning about source-stripe-native's events API version by @nicolaslazo in estuary/flow#3166
* agent-api: Add `STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET` to cloud run config by @jshearer in estuary/flow#3196
* shuffle, gazette: guard against wedged reads by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3193
* runtime-next: gate task-log stream by configured log level by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3198
* flowctl: preview-next appends a final drain session by @mdibaiee in estuary/flow#3195
* Allow localhost:3000 origin for the local control-plane agent by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3206
* control-plane-api: don't lock injected ops collections during publications by @skord in estuary/flow#3164
* runtime-next: force txn close at any usage ceiling, bypassing min duration by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3203
* shuffle: replay gapped producers on restart by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3202
* docs: source-zuora by @Alex-Bair in estuary/flow#3204
* dekaf: only read back when a fetch offset lands inside a document by @mdibaiee in estuary/flow#3205
* mise: dev-VM zone configurability (create fallback, zone-agnostic SSH, vm:move-gcp) by @skord in estuary/flow#3208
* docs/postgres: Discovery Filters by @willdonnelly in estuary/flow#3215
* docs: document materialize-s3-iceberg nanosecond_timestamps option by @jacobmarble in estuary/flow#3199
* runtime v2 flag for new captures and derivations by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3219
* runtime-next: converge startup reconciliation via rescan Persists by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3218
* build(deps): bump fast-uri from 3.1.0 to 3.1.4 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3223
* build(deps): bump svgo from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3224
* build(deps): bump dompurify from 3.3.3 to 3.4.12 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3222
* build(deps): bump shell-quote from 1.8.3 to 1.10.0 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3213
* build(deps): bump body-parser from 1.20.4 to 1.20.6 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3212
* build(deps): bump webpack-dev-server from 5.2.2 to 5.2.6 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3211
* build(deps): bump websocket-driver from 0.7.4 to 0.7.5 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3183
* Docs: MySQL discovery filters by @aeluce in estuary/flow#3217
* docs: source-smartsheet by @nicolaslazo in estuary/flow#3228
* control-plane-api: surface per-store health diagnostics in storage-mapping mutations by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3181
* async-process: handle reaping-task JoinError in Child::wait() without panicking by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3225
* feat: end-to-end truncation by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3132
* docs: source-zuora uses the AQuA API now by @Alex-Bair in estuary/flow#3237
* Improve storage mapping GraphQL results by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3200
* control-plane: add `closed` flag to data planes by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3175

**Full Changelog**: estuary/flow@v0.6.11...v0.6.12

Co-authored-by: mdibaiee <mdibaiee@users.noreply.github.com>
mdibaiee added a commit to estuary/homebrew-flowctl that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2026
## What's Changed
* docs: surface MCP and agent skills for coding agents by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3093
* dekaf: serve the document containing a mid-document fetch offset by @jshearer in estuary/flow#3150
* runtime: let docker atomically assign published connector host ports by @dgreer-dev in estuary/flow#3162
* runtime-next: discard hinted frontier when committed frontier is rebuilt by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3165
* docs/source-postgres: Sync statement_timeout change by @willdonnelly in estuary/flow#3168
* Provide capture/materializations created_at date by @dgreer-dev in estuary/flow#3160
* docs: add Processing order section for materialization binding priority by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3171
* docs: reorganize agent skills page by plugin, add derivations and schema by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3170
* go.mod: bump gazette to latest by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3180
* Service Accounts by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3058
* Bound too-large error messages over RPC by @dgreer-dev in estuary/flow#3182
* control-plane: guarded, auto-expiring temporary support access to restricted tenants by @skord in estuary/flow#3115
* private links: model links as rows with controller-observed status by @jshearer in estuary/flow#3063
* Adding support for an stripe web hook endpoint. by @bbartman in estuary/flow#3174
* docs: Dekaf consumer behaviors + Spark Structured Streaming guidance by @jwhartley in estuary/flow#3094
* shuffle: log canonical journal name in slice read events by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3190
* runtime: persist the max-key fail-safe sentinel at adoption by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3191
* local: make flow-plane-link robust to control-plane agent start-up by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3158
* gazette: surface fragment store diagnostic on FRAGMENT_STORE_UNHEALTHY by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3159
* docs: add warning about source-stripe-native's events API version by @nicolaslazo in estuary/flow#3166
* agent-api: Add `STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET` to cloud run config by @jshearer in estuary/flow#3196
* shuffle, gazette: guard against wedged reads by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3193
* runtime-next: gate task-log stream by configured log level by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3198
* flowctl: preview-next appends a final drain session by @mdibaiee in estuary/flow#3195
* Allow localhost:3000 origin for the local control-plane agent by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3206
* control-plane-api: don't lock injected ops collections during publications by @skord in estuary/flow#3164
* runtime-next: force txn close at any usage ceiling, bypassing min duration by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3203
* shuffle: replay gapped producers on restart by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3202
* docs: source-zuora by @Alex-Bair in estuary/flow#3204
* dekaf: only read back when a fetch offset lands inside a document by @mdibaiee in estuary/flow#3205
* mise: dev-VM zone configurability (create fallback, zone-agnostic SSH, vm:move-gcp) by @skord in estuary/flow#3208
* docs/postgres: Discovery Filters by @willdonnelly in estuary/flow#3215
* docs: document materialize-s3-iceberg nanosecond_timestamps option by @jacobmarble in estuary/flow#3199
* runtime v2 flag for new captures and derivations by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3219
* runtime-next: converge startup reconciliation via rescan Persists by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3218
* build(deps): bump fast-uri from 3.1.0 to 3.1.4 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3223
* build(deps): bump svgo from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3224
* build(deps): bump dompurify from 3.3.3 to 3.4.12 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3222
* build(deps): bump shell-quote from 1.8.3 to 1.10.0 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3213
* build(deps): bump body-parser from 1.20.4 to 1.20.6 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3212
* build(deps): bump webpack-dev-server from 5.2.2 to 5.2.6 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3211
* build(deps): bump websocket-driver from 0.7.4 to 0.7.5 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in estuary/flow#3183
* Docs: MySQL discovery filters by @aeluce in estuary/flow#3217
* docs: source-smartsheet by @nicolaslazo in estuary/flow#3228
* control-plane-api: surface per-store health diagnostics in storage-mapping mutations by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3181
* async-process: handle reaping-task JoinError in Child::wait() without panicking by @jgraettinger in estuary/flow#3225
* feat: end-to-end truncation by @williamhbaker in estuary/flow#3132
* docs: source-zuora uses the AQuA API now by @Alex-Bair in estuary/flow#3237
* Improve storage mapping GraphQL results by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3200
* control-plane: add `closed` flag to data planes by @GregorShear in estuary/flow#3175

**Full Changelog**: estuary/flow@v0.6.11...v0.6.12

Co-authored-by: mdibaiee <mdibaiee@users.noreply.github.com>
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